ABSTRACT

While cybercrime is attracting an increasing amount of interest, research in some areas is still lagging behind. One topic that has been given only limited scholarly attention is the geographical component: in short, why cybercrime emerges in some locations not others, and how this process takes place in each instance. A number of observers have acknowledged the primacy of Eastern European cybercrime, along with some thoughts on the factors of what led cybercrime to emerge there. This chapter takes matters one step further by trying to formalise the model of cybercriminal development found in the former Soviet states and to determine if it can be used to predict emerging profit-driven cybercrime hubs in other parts of the world. It takes a case study of Vietnam for this purpose.